Relative Strangers

Synopsis

The year is 1965. Jemima is just fifteen. And pregnant. And scared and distraught. 


Her parents are desperate to cover up the scandal, and force her to give up her baby. He is taken away from her before she has even had a chance to see him.

By 2009, Jemima is happily married with a grown-up daughter. But she has never stopped thinking about her son.

Where is he?  What happened to him?  Will she ever get a chance to meet him?

When her daughter’s boyfriend mysteriously disappears, Jemima is reminded of the missing piece in her own life. Desperate for closure and to heal her broken heart she decides to delve back into the past in a desperate search for the secret she has kept hidden from her family. Should she reveal the truth? 

How To Choose A Sweetheart

Max is a bookseller. Since his relationship with Jazz ended, he’s struggling to find purpose in life. That all changes when a beautiful woman, Cath, walks into his shop and pins up and advert asking for a piano teacher for her daughter, Alice.

It’s almost perfect. Max takes down the details and gets in touch immediately. Within a short space of time he manages to secure the position as Alice’s piano teacher and establish that Cath’s a single mother. 

What could be better?

Well, he might be able to play the piano for a start.

Or his newly acquired piano teacher might not be an old, alcoholic wreck.

Or he might be completely over his ex-girlfriend. 

And he might not be forced into a position where he needs to come up with a composition of his own to woo the new lady in his life.
It’s a tangled web we weave and Max seems to be sticking in the threads like a spider in a web.

A topsy-turvy romantic comedy that will warm your cockles and split your sides.

How To Be Good

Synopsis

In Nick Hornby's How To Be Good, Katie Carr is certainly trying to be. That's why she became a GP. That's why she cares about Third World debt and homelessness, and struggles to raise her children with a conscience. 

It's also why she puts up with her husband David, self-styled "Angriest Man in Holloway". But one fateful day, she finds herself in a Leeds car-park, having just slept with another man. 

What she doesn't yet realise is that her Fall from Grace is just the first step on a spiritual journey more torturous than the M25 at rush-hour. Because, prompted by his wife's actions, David is about to stop being Angry. 

He's about to become Good--not Guardian-reading, organic-food-eating good, but Good in the fashion of the Gospels. And that's no easier in modern-day Holloway than it was in ancient Israel.

AMY AND ZACH

Synopsis

Meet Amy & Zach

Amy has moved to the US in order to find her real father, but she hasn’t quite worked up the courage to do so yet. 

Then she met Zach, who swept her off her feet. They fell in love, fast. But Zach has a secret with the potential to ruin everything.

As Amy prepares to return to England for her sister Libby’s wedding, Zach drops a bombshell. Amy is furious, so she hides his passport and flies alone. But Zach’s secret isn’t her only worry. She will see Tim again – her sister’s fiancé. 

After he finds his passport, Zach heads to the UK to surprise Amy. He wants to apologise and finally meet her family. He knows he has a lot of explaining to do. But just what will he face?

Amy & Zach take it in turns to share their tale with you. They will reveal all, and may surprise you, in the end...

Expected

Synopsis

Red Alert.

Sam Sweet is terrified of giving birth. 

Only, she doesn’t dare tell anyone. Especially her grandchild-obsessed mother, or her fiancé, Simon - top surgeon by day, mind-game expert by night. 

Repressed by the expectations of others, Sam feels trapped. All she ever wanted was a career and a crack at independence, but as a catastrophically failed psychiatric nurse who now injects fillers into the crinkled faces of unhappy women, a career is proving tricky. There’s something wrong with the product and now clients are suing. 

Nasty work colleagues stir up scandalous gossip, and soon Sam hits rock bottom, consoling herself with button-popping chocolate binges and terrifying spending sprees. 

Sam is going to have to find her voice if she ever wants to be herself, fall in love, and follow her dreams. 

Alas, the wedding date is set...Purchase

Lost and Found

Synopsis

It started with a letter ...

Carol is married to a man she doesn't love and mother to a daughter she doesn't understand. Crippled with guilt, she can't shake the feeling that she has wasted her life. So she puts pen to paper and writes a Letter to the Universe.

Albert is a widowed postman, approaching retirement age, and living with his cat, Gloria, for company. Slowly being pushed out at his place of work, he is forced down to the section of the post office where they sort undeliverable mail. When a series of letters turns up with a smiley face drawn in place of an address, he cannot help reading them.

Happy Endings

Four people. Two couples. 

Six months that will change their lives forever.

Kate wants to go travelling before she reaches the big Three-O, while her long-term boyfriend Ed just wants to settle down.

Jack is desperate to be a published writer for many reasons, but mainly to save his relationship with fiancée Emma.

Emma wants to be an actress more than anything in the world, or at least that's what she thinks . . .

Told from each of their perspectives, this is a story about love, growing up and, of course, the search for a happy ending.